{"product_id":"lifes-ultimate-questions-25-pack-paperback","title":"Life's Ultimate Questions (25-Pack) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVoddie Baucham Jr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLife's Ultimate Questions\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery human being who has ever lived or will ever live has asked, is asking or will ask four basic questions: \u003cem\u003eWho am I? Why am I here? What is wrong with the world? \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHow can what is wrong be made right? \u003c\/em\u003eWhile we may not say them, it is in the soul of every person to wrestle with these questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllow me to answer these questions first from the perspective of our culture and then from the perspective of the Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eANSWERS FROM OUR CULTURE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWho am I? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eYou are an accident. You are a mistake. You are a glorified ape. You are the result of random evolutionary process. That's it. No rhyme. No reason. No purpose. This is the pathetic reality when evolution runs its full course. If the idea is carried to its logical conclusion, human beings have no value. You are ultimately nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhy am I here?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eYou are here to consume and enjoy. That's the only thing that matters. When the famous philanthropist John D. Rockefeller was asked, \"How much money is enough?\" he was as honest as any man has ever been. He responded, \"Just a little bit more.\" Consume and enjoy--that's why you're here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhat is wrong with the world? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ePeople are either insufficiently educated or insufficiently governed. That's what's wrong with the world. People either don't know enough, or they're not being watched enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow can what is wrong be made right? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe solution is more education and more government. Teach people more stuff and give them more information. How do we combat AIDS? Through AIDS awareness. How do we combat racism? Anti-hate classes. What about the man who beats his wife? Anger-management classes. Just give people more information and everything will be fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answers provided by our culture leave us wanting and empty. Let's now take a look at how God's Word, the Bible, answers these same questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eANSWERS FROM THE BIBLE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWho am I? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eYou cannot figure out who\u003cem\u003e you \u003c\/em\u003eare until you first discover who \u003cem\u003eJesus Christ \u003c\/em\u003eis. Jesus \"is the image of the invisible God....\u003cem\u003e by him all things were created\u003c\/em\u003e...all things were created through him and for him\" (Colossians 1:15-16). He is the exact representation of God. He is the picture of God in human flesh. He is God on this earth. He is God with us, God among us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bible says that I am created by God--in his image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). Not the result of random processes. The Bible says that whether I am tall and beautiful or small and not so handsome, whether my body functions perfectly or is severely deformed, I am the crowning glory of the creation of God, and as a result I have inherent dignity, worth, and value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhy am I here? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\"All things were created through him \u003cem\u003eand for him\u003c\/em\u003e.... that \u003cem\u003ein everything he might be preeminent\u003c\/em\u003e\" (Colossians 1:16b-18). The ultimate purpose of all things is to bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ. That's why I exist. That is why you exist. And because of this, contrary to the view of our culture, the reason for my existence goes far beyond consumption and enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhat is wrong with the world? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eI am. You are. Despite the fact that we are the crowning glory of the creation of God, created to live and bring glory and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ, we are instead hostile and disobedient toward the One by whom and for whom we were created. \"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way\" (Isaiah 53:6). The Bible calls this disobedience towards God \"sin\", and it says that \"all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God\" (Romans 3:23). In short, sin is what's wrong with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow can what is wrong be made right? \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eWhat is wrong can only be made right by the substitutionary, atoning death of Christ. \"He [Jesus] has now reconciled you in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and beyond reproach before him\" (Colossians 1:22). There is \u003cstrong\u003eno other means\u003c\/strong\u003e by which we can be made right with God. \"There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved\" (Acts 4:12).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bible says, \"For our sake [God] made him [Jesus} to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God\" (2 Corinthians 5:21). There was nothing else that could have been done that would have allowed God to be righteous and also the one who makes us right. In the mercy of God the Father he punished his Son in our place in order to satisfy his righteous wrath against sin. Our only hope is to believe in Jesus who was crucified for us and rose again (1 Corinthians 1:23, 15:3-4). The sinless Lamb of God gave his life to pay a debt that he did not owe on behalf of sinners \u003cem\u003ewho could never pay him back!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe Ultimate Answer\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf these two sets of answers--from our culture and from the Bible--are placed side by side, something very interesting happens. With the answers from our culture, you are left worthless, empty, and hopeless. You're on your own to pursue satisfaction...and you'll never find it. But the Bible says you are precious. You have purpose. You were purchased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only way what is wrong in your life can be made right is for you to believe what the Bible says. Believe that Jesus took the punishment for your sins by dying on the cross as a substitute for you and that he rose from the dead three days later, showing that God had accepted his death on the cross as the payment for the sin-debt that you owed to God. If you believe this to be true, repent of (completely turn from) your sinful patterns of life, and pl\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 5.4 x 3.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52061723230509,"sku":"9781682164198","price":8.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/lifes-ultimate-questions-25-pack-paperback-5575492.webp?v=1780167967","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/lifes-ultimate-questions-25-pack-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}